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Tweet vaso link Boiling down a year’s worth of music into a manageable 10-entry list is a bit daunting, but when the powers that be at Tympanogram gave the order, I obliged. The problem, of course, is that I am riddled with insecurities. I haven’t been able to listen to everything I’ve wanted to the extent that I would have liked. Maybe the records I gravitated to just don't cut the mustard. Maybe my preferences for marginal styles diminishes my [...]
1. Clams Casino - All I Need / I'm God from Instrumental Mixtape ( Type ) Even if both these beats technically came out last year beneath Soulja Boy and Lil' B raps respectively, it wasn't until about half way through this year that the full mountainous weight of these instrumentals really hit me. And just out of Imogen Heap samples, I mean shit! 2. James [...]
Pete Swanson - Remote View Vatican Shadow - Whitewashed Compound Stealth Helicopter Crash Ricardo Donoso - Baiting Disappointment Oneohtrix Point Never - Power of persuasion Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop Borealis - Wandering Atrial Tropic of cancer - A color Colin Stetson - Judges Heatsick - Ice cream on concrete Surgeon - Radiance DJ Q - Mixing Room Ricardo Tobar - Anne (unreleased / removed
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Over nearly 45 minutes—that's like 50% more jams than usual!—we explore the depths of this year's NOW issue with a lovingly mixed audio accompaniment. The podcast showcases our favorite tracks from cover stars Future and ... read more »
1) ZOMBY - Dedication [4AD] Dedication lijkt een kijkje in Zomby's schetsboek: een aaneenschakeling van korte, plots afgebroken tracks, die samen het mooiste album van 2011 vormen. Syntharpeggio's, geweerschoten, vrouwenstemmen en kartonnendozendrums vinden elkaar in een wonderschone wereld die altijd al bestaan moet hebben. Zomby zette dit jaar de deur voor je open.. 2) OMAR-S - It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It [FXHE] [...]
At this year's Record Store Day - the April one, not the November shindig - I felt something that hadn't occurred to me in probably 10 years. I felt excited to hold a record. Standing in line, clutching the inside of my far-too-thin hoodie (thanks, Chicago wind), I paced back and forth in my mind, thinking, God, I hope I get this album . The item in question? Big Star's unreleased Third . Of course, I didn't get it. Nobody did. The store didn't even receive a copy. So, instead, I spent a couple [...]
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Frying saxophone solos! Â Synthesizers recreating lost sunny days! Â Nihilistically lewd mixtapes inspiring dozens of new entries on Urban Dictionary! Â Tricked-out dubstep for American mall rats! Â The musical trends that defined much of 20112s critically-lauded output were roundly ignored by my favorite records of the year. Â The best albums of the year invented their own one-band microgenres. Â EMA gave us California confessional poetry, while WU LYF reinvented protest punk for a generation without a cause. Â Wolves in the Throne Room continued to hone their environmental black metal. Â Das Racist refined their postmodern identity joke rap. Â Peaking Lights invented Midwestern dub, and [...]
Daniel Lopatin, the man behind Oneohtrix Point Never and half of the production duo Ford & Lopatin , has created one of the most original, captivating albums of the year with his ambient OPN release Replica . Stream the beautiful title track below. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica by Mexican Summer Replica is available now on Software / Mexican Summer .
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31. Wild Flag - "Future Crimes" Few straight-on rock acts forced me to pay attention this year like Wild Flag (which features Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney.) This track in particular summons up the urgency & ferocity of the best of that legendary band. 32. Teen Daze - "The Harvest" - youtube This is from Teen Daze's 2011 concept album based on C.S. Lewis's Out Of The Silent Planet , and is also inspired by the time that Teen [...]
50 The notion of compiling a "50 Best Songs of the Year" list is preposterous. Â In addition to the absurd presumption that songs across genres can be objectively compared in some meaningful way, such a list ignores the fact that one's experience of a song is entirely situational, as dependent on one's mood and temperament as on any musical detail. Â Indeed, a list of this type is bound to almost destined to disappoint, confuse, or perhaps even enrage the reader. And yet we worked our asses off on this one. Â Staffer Peter Lillis, co-editor [...]
Napolain takes heed on Oneohtrix Point Never's new album, Replica , and reworks one of my personal favorite tunes off the joint. "Up", is transformed into a ravetronic conglomerate that glides its filthy blood-pumping bass into a mario-kart highway to heaven. He did the tune some incredible justice. Also, check out this teaser off Napolian's forthcoming EP, Rejoice , over at his soundcloud . Oneohtrix Point Never - Up (Napolian Remix) Original [...]
On Oneohtrix Point Never's latest album, producer Daniel Lopatin casually saunters into the field of sample-based music, and kicks total ass. WATCH THE REVIEW
Veel zinnigs heb ik niet getypt in de afgelopen maand, mede door tijdgebrek en/of omdat ik niet genoeg tekst kon verzinnen voor een afzonderlijke release. Dus, je kunt gerust stellen dat de wel besproken nieuwe ( France & Orfanado ) hoogtepunten waren in november. Het is toch al een rustige periode, omdat labels nu veelal geen of weinig albums meer uitbrengen uit angst dat deze de jaarlijsten niet meer halen. Maar de hele maand niets, daar kan natuurlijk geen sprake van zijn. Sommige platen hebben door [...]
I keep on re-visiting this album so I thought it was worthy of a follow up post (the original being posted here ). Ive also been in love with the new Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) album, 'Replica', which is built partly using fragments of human speech and the sounds 'inbetween the sounds' in words and vocals. It seems to me that both Jarre and Lopatin have followed a similar trajectory in their synth-etic exterminations, at different points in time. 'Replica' is almost a modern take on the same idea. MP3: [...]
Given the approaching end of year, I thought I'd be spending November catching up on records I missed earlier in the year, for maximal list-making capabilities. Not so, for whatever reason. I'm just as tuned out as ever, apparently. Only picked up two new-to-me albums this month. Sort of an odd pairing for a blog post, but so be it. Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica I spent most of November listening to this album over and over, trying to love it more than I did. Only in the last week or so have I finally [...]
Oneohtrix Point Never By Greg Salter November 24, 2011 A church seems like an appropriate venue to hear Daniel Lopatin present the music he’s been making as Oneohtrix Point Never over the last few years. His albums, particularly the sci-fi ambience of 2010’s Returnal and the more fractured, abject tracks on this year’s Replica , are meditative, insular, cerebral things, best heard all the way through, on your own. What’s more, it seems kind of fitting that an artist who has just created [...]
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